From 3a46885c17ba051ced802e3d35b9ddc6bf10edf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:58:11 +0000
Subject: preparation for 0.24

git-svn-id: file:///home/lennart/svn/public/ifplugd/trunk@109 2bf48fe7-cfc1-0310-909f-d9042e1e0fef
---
 man/ifplugd.8.xml.in      |  4 ++--
 man/ifplugstatus.8.xml.in | 18 ++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'man')

diff --git a/man/ifplugd.8.xml.in b/man/ifplugd.8.xml.in
index 4b57aef..e720ce2 100644
--- a/man/ifplugd.8.xml.in
+++ b/man/ifplugd.8.xml.in
@@ -136,8 +136,8 @@
 	  <option>
 		<p><opt>-m | --api-mode=</opt> <arg>MODE</arg></p> <optdesc><p>
 		Force a specific link beat detection ioctl() API. Possible
-		values are auto, wlan, ethtool, mii, and priv for automatic
-		detection, wireless extension, SIOCETHTOOL, SIOCGMIIREG
+		values are auto, iff, wlan, ethtool, mii, and priv for automatic
+		detection, interface flag (IFF_RUNNING), wireless extension, SIOCETHTOOL, SIOCGMIIREG
 		resp. SIOCPRIV. Only the first character of the argument is
 		relevant, case insensitive.  (default: auto) </p></optdesc>
 	  </option>
diff --git a/man/ifplugstatus.8.xml.in b/man/ifplugstatus.8.xml.in
index 1f4aed8..684ba02 100644
--- a/man/ifplugstatus.8.xml.in
+++ b/man/ifplugstatus.8.xml.in
@@ -32,10 +32,20 @@
 	  <p>ifplugstatus is an utility which may be used to detect the link
 	  status of a local Linux ethernet device, much in the same way
 	  mii-diag, mii-tool and ethtool work. In fact it supports all
-	  three different APIs these three tools use. Thus, it provides
-	  maximal compatibility. The newest API (ethtool) is used first,
-	  than the next older (mii-diag) and at last the oldest
-	  (mii-tool). It may be used in shell script since it returns the
+	  three different APIs these three tools use. In addition it supports
+	  link checking with the IFF_RUNNING interface flag, which most modern 
+	  drivers (not only ethernet) support, and association status checking 
+	  with the wireless extension API for WLAN devices.</p>
+	  
+	  <p>The APIs are tried in the following order:</p>
+	 
+	  <p>First the cleanest API: <arg>IFF_RUNNING</arg> (aka ifconfig API)</p>
+	  <p>Second the newest API: <arg>SIOCETHTOOL</arg> (aka ethtool API)</p>
+	  <p>Third the next older API: <arg>SIOCGMIIREG</arg> (aka mii-diag API)</p>
+	  <p>Than the WLAN API: <arg>wireless extension</arg> (aka iwconfig API)</p>
+	  <p>Finally the oldest API: <arg>SIOCPRIV</arg> (aka mii-tool API)</p>
+	  
+	  <p>It may be used in shell script since it returns the
 	  current status as return value. It is especially useful to
 	  detect the available APIs on the used network driver. (Option 
 	  <opt>-v</opt>)</p>
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